Over 16,000 Pakistan families refuse polio vaccination

ISLAMABAD – Over 16,400 families across the country refused to get their children vaccinated during the first two days of the latest round of the National Polio Campa...

215 million indians have zero assets

As PM Modi makes it clear that “inclusion” is the new emerging political mantra in the country, a new report estimates that 215 million Indians are excluded fro...

Proceeds of Ali Zafar's video to go to charity

Actor, singer and artist Ali Zafar has brought together 50 of Pakistan’s most loved personalities for a music video that pays tribute to the Peshawar school massacre ...

Children’s Day special: Stark reality of child health in India

It is Children’s Day today. As the nation celebrates the day, there is a need to analyse the real state of affairs that the children in the country face.

In a...

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is hailed around the world as a champion of women’s rights who stood up bravely against the Taliban to defe...

Indian peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi to join hands with Pakistan's Malala

India?? Kailash Satyarthi dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize that he shared on Friday to children in slavery, pledging to "join hands" with fellow laureate Malala Yousafzai of...

Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize

??ho is Malala???shouted the Taliban gunman who leapt onto a crowded bus in north western Pakistan two years ago, then fired a bullet into the head of Malala Yousafzai, a 1...

Mahesh Bhatt bats for Indo-Pak cultural ties, girl child

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has urged for the utilisation of cultural space as a means to foster ties between India and neighbour Pakistan. “I have always crusaded for Ind...

Polio eradication by vaccination: good news and bad

A clinical trial gives hope that the right vaccination scheme could eradicate polio worldwide by 2018. Another study, though, warns that mutated viruses could jeopardize th...